Now after he had been conducted into the tent of Artapates, the most
 faithful of Cyru s’ chamberlains, from that
 moment no man ever saw Orontas living or dead, nor could anyone say
 from actual knowledge how he was put to death,—it was all
 conjectures, of one sort and another; and no grave of his was ever
 seen. From there Cyrus 
 marched through Babylonia 
 three stages, twelve parasangs. On the third stage he held a review
 of the Greeks and the barbarians on the plain at about midnight; for
 he thought that at the next dawn the King would come with his army
 to do battle; and he ordered Clearchus to act as commander of the
 right wing and Menon of the left, while he himself marshalled his
 own troops. On the morning following the review, at daybreak, there came
 deserters from the great King and brought reports to
 Cyrus about his army. At this time Cyrus called together
 the generals and captains of the Greeks, and not only took counsel
 with them as to how he should fight the battle, but, for his own
 part, exhorted and encouraged them as follows: Men of Greece , it is not because I have not barbarians
 enough that I have brought you hither to fight for me; but
 because I believe that you are braver and stronger than many
 barbarians, for this reason I took you also. Be sure, therefore,
 to be men worthy of the freedom you possess, upon the possession
 of which I congratulate you. For you may be certain that freedom
 is the thing I should choose in preference to all that I have
 and many times more. And now, in order that you may know
 what sort of a contest it is into which you are going, I who do
 know will tell you. Our enemies have great numbers and they will
 come on with a great outcry; for the rest, however, if you can
 hold out against these things, I am ashamed, I assure you, to
 think what sorry fellows you will find the people of our country
 to be. But if you be men and if my undertaking turn out well, I
 shall make anyone among you who wishes to return home an object
 of envy to his friends at home upon his return, while I shall
 cause many of you, I imagine, to choose life with me in
 preference to life at home.